Supporting Colleagues with Anxiety

Course Overview

Anxiety is the most common mental illness, and there are likely to be people within all organisations that have one of the several different types of anxiety disorders.

This course has therefore been designed to increase the learners’ understanding of anxiety and how they can appropriately support any colleagues that have been diagnosed, are recovering from or are displaying symptoms of anxiety.

Learning Outcomes

By the end of this module, you should be able to:

• Identify how an anxiety disorder is different from normal feelings of anxiety;
• Discuss the different anxiety disorders;
• Identify the key symptoms of anxiety;
• Discuss what causes anxiety and how it can be treated;
• Explain how to support someone who has or might have anxiety.